SO excited about my New Blog!!

I have been wanting to start a blog of my own for a while now.  I didn't know what to call it or what to put in it, but just recently I felt like it was time.  A friend gave me a great idea for the name "Party of Five" I wanted to include Rich somehow so I kicked it up a notch and made it into "Seven is Heaven".  God has been helping me write things that He has been putting on my heart so setting this blog up is giving me a place to share.  

Awhile back I felt that God was calling me to use everything that He had put in me.  We all have experiences in life that we think are insignificant, but there is one thing for sure, God doesn't waste any of them.  I knew that growing up in the middle of a bug and snake infested jungle wasn't for nothing. Watching how a group of people in the middle of a huge sea of jungle went from living in total fear to having their eyes opened to the God who made them, loves then and gave everything for them, was pretty amazing.  Not to mention life changing as well.  My parents sacrificed just like we sacrifice for our own kids and it ended up becoming worth it all.  God puts into us a lifetime of blessings and trials, all making us into something beautiful.   Ok, not saying I am beautiful yet.  Just hoping someday when I see Him face to face He will say "well done". 

So, why do a blog?  I hope to keep you all up with our life on this journey that God has started for us.  Which is one of following Him into ministry and one of learning how to walk by faith, well more like feeling that I am failing to live by faith.  God in His mercy has brought us through so much and is teaching us tons at the same time.  I would not trade these past two years for anything!  Really, it has been SO hard to learn how to walk by faith.  Honestly, I came to a point just recently (while the kids and I were praying before school time), that I cried out to God, telling Him that this raising support to go to Papua New Guinea has been the hardest thing I have EVER done.  Yep, I think it ranks pretty much up there!  Now we are down to the wire and sitting at the edge of a cliff, so to say.  We only have until January 3rd to raise the rest of our monthly support and we have this huge amount of 25,000 to raise for the one time expenses like airplane tickets and training and moving costs.  

Corrie Ten Boom once said something like, God doesn't pay for the train ticket until the train gets there...  He is amazing and makes life so exciting.  So I choose to say that life is sure exciting right now.  "Do you trust Me?, do you TRUST Me?"  Yes, I trust you, Lord, help me to trust you more!  

I hope you can come back and visit this new place and way to share in my life and in the lives of the Seven of Us.  Thank you for your love and prayers.  Always sincerely, 

Ruthe